Tata Steel Chess R8: Exciting games as Carlsen, Aronian keep lead

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There were exciting games all around in the eighth round at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament though only one game ended in a decisive manner - Anish Giri losing to Vugar Gashimov.

Group A: Round 8 - Sun. Jan. 22nd
Veselin Topalov - Levon Aronian ½-½
Fabiano Caruana - Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½
Anish Giri - Vugar Gashimov 0-1
David Navara - Loek van Wely ½-½
Boris Gelfand - Gata Kamsky ½-½
Teimour Radjabov - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Sergey Karjakin - Hikaru Nakamura ½-½

With these results we have both Carlsen and Aronian at 5.5 points each, Radjabov at 5 points, Ivanchuk, Caruana, Nakamura at 4.5 points each, Giri and Van Wely at 4, Topalov, Karjakin, Kamsky at 3.5, Gashimov, Gelfand at 3 and Navara at 2 points. 

You can see the Giri-Gashimov game with Chess King.

Giri, Anish (2714) - Gashimov, Vugar (2761)

Result: 0-1

Site: Wijk aan Zee NED

Date: 2012.01.22

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